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Simulating Mars in Austria

David Pescovitz at 3:37 pm Mon, May 7, 2012

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Space researchers are playing Mars on Earth in the giant ice caves at Austria's Dachstein mountain. Many more amazing photographs at the Austrian Space Forum's Dachstein Mars Simulation blog.

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  • AbdulAlhazred

    I think you undercut the real headline: BUZZ LIGHTYEAR INVOLVED IN SPACE PROGRAM.

  • gullevek

    So their headset moved on top of the cap. They should have taken a look to the oldschool apollo headset: http://airandspace.si.edu/images/collections/media/full/A19840157000CU1.JPG

  • petsounds

    Enough Mars simulations already! Let’s just go there, dammit.

    But instead our tax money is spent making warplanes that cost $1B each, which have never flown combat missions because the military is too afraid to lose them.

  • Tim Drage

    Simulating Mars in New York City :) 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1dyoTIkEX0

  • Narmitaj

    There’s a scene in Tintin “Explorers On The Moon” which looks a lot like the above image: spacesuit, cave, ice slope. This isn’t quite it, though it’s close.

    Edit to add: This page puts the above linked image in its context, though the ice slope is still a page or two further on. From 1954, btw.